On Thursday September 19, just five days after the premiere of "The Goldfinch," based off of Donna Tartt’s pulitzer prize winning novel, there were exactly seven people watching it in the Georgetown...

With teen cigarette smoking in the US at an all-time low, the typical 80s movie scene where three girls are crowded in the end stall by the window smoking a cigarette is unheard of. Instead, on a visit...

La reciente adición a Netflix, Élite, ha cautivado a los jóvenes de todas partes que esperan ansiosamente la segunda temporada. Parecido a Gossip Girl, Élite se trata de un colegio secundario exclusivo...

Truth Initiative, a DC based nonprofit dedicated to ending tobacco use, has expanded its quit smoking program to e-cigarettes. The new program comes after the U.S. Surgeon General released an advisory...

Acting Chancellor Dr. Lewis D. Ferebee is visiting schools and learning about the issues confronting DCPS as he wraps up his first months leading the school system. In an interview with The Beacon, Ferebee...

Despite just moving from Delaware to DC this summer, Poonam Sharma, a Wilson physics and engineering teacher, is already up on the District’s restaurant scene. While Sharma has a knack for stumping students...

The National Honor Society (NHS) offers tutoring during STEP and after school, four days a week. They have put up posters to advertise, posted messages on the newsletter, and made announcements on the...

JPMorgan Chase & Co has committed $6 million to “expand access to economic opportunity” for students in the Greater Washington region. The investment hopes to increase the number of high school...

The recent government shutdown has been the longest, and likely most catastrophic, in American history. 800,000 federal workers have remained furloughed for close to a month. Tens of thousands have been...

As unfortunate as it is, there’s no denying it: testing season is upon us. From midterms starting this week to the in-school SAT in March and AP exams in May, there is some form of testing occuring every...

Mayor Muriel Bowser appointed prominent education consultant and administrator Paul Kihn to the position of Deputy Mayor of Education in October. Bowser has asked Kihn to focus on two specific goals: narrowing...

After more than a year of efforts from different cities to secure Amazon, the company announced its second headquarters will be split between Long Island City, New York and Crystal City, Virginia, newly...

“Stokeley” by Ski Mask The Slump God By Erin Harper Rating: 9/10 After waiting for seemingly 3,000 years and constantly checking every day to see if it came out, Ski Mask The Slump God finally...

The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) released report cards for every public and charter school in the District last Friday, with a series of metrics and a rating out of five stars....

Art teacher Mary Barnes has already spent more than $300 of her own money on supplies in the first quarter of the year. After the classes she was teaching changed and her supplies were damaged by flood...

  For the first few weekends of the school year, the fate of Wilson students was akin to their ancestral peers on Noah’s Ark: turbulent rainstorms, unending precipitation, and frightful lightning....

After a whirlwind of policy changes and scandals related to attendance and graduation, Mayor Muriel Bowser used her first formal veto to prevent chronically absent seniors from graduating. The veto rejected...

Only one Wilson academy goes on college tours, visits local fish wholesalers, and meets executive business owners. Next year, however, it might not be able to due to a decrease in funding. The Academy...

A midyear report DCPS released April of this year found that only 46 percent of DCPS seniors are on track to graduate, 27 percentage points fewer than the graduation rate of last year. At Wilson, 62 percent...

Several DC Council members have proposed legislation to establish an independent watchdog to monitor and analyze DCPS data.   After a year plagued by multiple residency fraud and graduation scandals,...

Next year, students will only be in school for three weeks in February. The other week they will be on a February break. This is just one of many new additions to the DCPS calendar for 2018-19. The calendar...

On April 7, the Wilson atrium was unrecognizable. The usual swarms of students were replaced by dinner tables, live music, and a catering company. This was the Wilson Gala, an annual event sponsored by...

Junior and senior year brings schedules overloaded with AP classes, after-school activities, SAT and ACT tests and don’t forget the whirlwind of college tours. This year’s freshman class is already...

There is one way all the members of the Wilson Ethics Bowl team describe the tournament they competed in last Saturday: unethical. Coming into the tournament as reigning regional champions, the team...

Words can leave deep wounds. “Retard,” slang for mental retardation, the dated medical term once used to diagnose intellectual disabilities (ID) by physicians, has come to hold a negative connotation...

National Zoo officials scrambled to find the 25 pound bobcat, Ollie, who escaped Monday, January 30, eventually finding her at the Zoo three days later. But, where was she those three days she was not...